KCS acquires Toluca intermodal terminal

- Kansas City Southern (KCS) has acquired the Puerta Mexico intermodal facility at Toluca and in a few days KCS (Mexico) will add a direct train service from Lazaro Cardenas to Puerta Mexico, providing Mexico City importers and exporters with a service featuring improved consistency and reliability and better transit times, according to the company.

"Puerta Mexico is well positioned on KCS’s International intermodal corridor, making it a valuable enhancement for our cross border service offering," said David Starling, KCS president & COO.

With its connection to the KCS rail network, Puerta Mexico serves the industrial centres of Mexico and the US, several important seaports and the Toluca-Mexico City industrial corridor.

The Toluca facility provides intermodal rail and truck services, warehouse storage and has the only inland customs clearing facility in Mexico. In addition to train services, Puerta Mexico offers multimodal terminal services and on site customs and bonded warehousing facilities to ocean carriers, intermodal and other logistics service providers.

With an estimated capacity exceeding 150,000 containers and more than 2m tons of cargo per year on more than 130 developed acres, the facility essentially doubles the intermodal capacity available to the greater Mexican central valley and alleviates congestion in the region.

(Source: Container Management)